VBScript Job Trends

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VBScript skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 748 681
Rank change year-on-year +84 -67 +300
Permanent jobs citing VBScript 10 43 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.055% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.076% 0.18% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 80
10th Percentile £30,750 £34,000 £39,675
25th Percentile £31,250 £53,506 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £58,263 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -44.22% +3.07% +7.67%
75th Percentile £44,063 £89,375 £74,250
90th Percentile £61,000 £95,000 £74,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £56,525 £56,525
% change year-on-year -42.50% - +13.05%

All Programming Languages
UK

VBScript falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,102 24,138 24,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.51% 30.89% 40.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,465 15,075 20,325
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,648
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,231 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

VBScript
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VBScript as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBScript.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VBScript

VBScript
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VBScript over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for VBScript in the UK

VBScript
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VBScript within the UK over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +77 10 £32,500 -44.22% 7
UK excluding London +77 8 £32,500 -42.50% 6
East of England -9 6 £32,500 -
London +66 2 £72,500 -23.68% 1
North of England +25 2 £35,750 +5.15% 4
North East +19 1 £45,000 +20.00%
North West +2 1 £26,500 -22.06% 4

VBScript
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Asana
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DHCP
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
1 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (60.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) IT Support
2 6 (60.00%) IT Support Technician
2 6 (60.00%) IT Technician
2 6 (60.00%) Support Technician
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) Kendo UI
1 1 (10.00%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) CCTV
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (70.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) User Experience
3 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) API Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) ITSM
5 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) MCSA
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Datto
3 1 (10.00%) EMC
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Telerik
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam